The only person who really matters in this case is that poor child.

older, more likely to have kids, I imagine more likely to be working in high-stress jobs that take more time away from health (because older)....

ughhhhh.....there are so many confounding variables here that this study (as reported) is all but useless. this is (one of the many, many) reasons why social science is getting so much flack lately. it’s forgetting how to science.

I’m pretty sure you just won all the internets.

No probably about it....

I’m actually confused about what you’re satirizing. Are you satirizing “basic bitches” or a stereotype of “white girls” (upper-middle class WASP white women)? Engaged Brooklynites, a few years off from bringing their babies to their local bars? Because that’s actually how this read to me. From the 100-year-old ring,…

Yesssss.....thank you for pointing this out. I felt bad for agreeing that this is a terrible humble brag, but this is why.

This is why Jolie is our favorite. She frees us from the greys. ^_^

I love everything about this.

I’m too sentimental. I think of my mother every time I put on jewelry that she bought me. I’d do the same thing with lingerie. /shudder

Yes! We always do this. I couldn’t imagine having to lug everything home from the hotel the next morning - or worse, have your parents do it when you leave for your honeymoon!

F THAT SHIT.

oh, it’s not that I don’t have the need for it. I bake or cook at least once a week, often 2-4 times. It’s just that I’m still using the hand mixer I bought myself in college, and could continue using it for another decade if necessary. A KitchenAid is one of those awesome luxuries I would never buy myself, but that’s…

No. No, no, no.

What is the business value for this feature? Why did they spend money developing it? Was it just to say they could?

weird! I feel like if someone wants to give me a crystal vase they should just go ahead and do it, because whatever they pick will be as close to my taste as it will ever get (that is, not at all).

Ohhhhh....this are bachelor/bachelorette parties. Bridal showers are kinda like baby showers but before the wedding....ladies get together for a (sober or relatively so) luncheon or tea and give gifts to the bride, and make her wear a hat made out of the bows from all the wrapping, and play other silly games.

How so? I can see some bachelor/bachelorette shenanigans being foul to some people (we are a stripper-free couple ourselves, personally, but we’re not gonna judge others), but bridal showers? If anything, they seem silly and frivolous (but hopefully fun!).

I think we may be more prudish nowadays. I was at a bridal shower recently where the mother of the bride got the bride some very pretty lace lingerie, and I was absolutely shocked. Maybe it’s because I’d never heard of it or considered it before, but I don’t think I’d ever be able to wear sexy lingerie given to me by…

If you don’t want to, you can always decline one or both.